Dr. Francisco Arturo Rosales, ASU Professor Emeritus of History, passed away on December 22, 2016. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1978. Since writing a dissertation on Mexican immigration to the Chicago area, he has published over 40 articles and essays and six books on the Mexican immigrant experience and on Latino civil rights. His book Chicano! A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1996) accompanied a PBS documentary of the same name. Professor Rosales came to ASU in 1980 after five years at the University of Houston where he taught courses in Mexican American, United States and Latin American history. He also taught at the University of Nebraska and the University of California, Davis as a visiting professor. While at ASU he served in various university committees at the department, college and presidential levels. In addition, he was involved in numerous national organizations. He served on the board of editors in the American Nineteenth Century journal, and on the advisory committee of two national media projects, "Race with History" radio program and the "American Lynching" film documentary project. Professor Rosales was an active participant in the Chicano Movement, and in 1968, he served as the first co-chair of ASU’s Mexican American Student Organization, (MASO), which later became MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano Aztlán).